Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

Description

Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia is a book by anthropologist Baldwin Spencer, first published in 1914. This is a comprehensive ethnography of the Australian Aborigines of Northern Australia, particularly the group known as the Kakadu, and the tribes of Melville Island. This is one of about half a dozen ethnographies written before the destruction of the Australian traditional cultures. The author was known for his fieldwork with Aboriginal peoples in Central Australia.

This book has 210,350 words, 301 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1914.

Production notes: This ebook of Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia was published by Global Grey in 2020, and updated on the 22nd April 2024. The artwork used for the cover is 'Sunlight (Cutting on a hot road)' by Arthur Streeton.